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Mastery in education
Our education system has been fundamentally broken for many decades, ever since schools were established, actually. It is disheartening to see that nothing has changed since I went to school. And there are additional challenges schools, teachers and students are facing today. Sal Khan explains just how the system is broken and how applying the concept of mastery would make education so much more worthwhile.
The times they are a-changin’
I recall lining up at sporting events trying (and sometimes succeeding) to get autographs of sports stars. Fast forward 30 years, and the selfie has clearly replaced the autograph.
Dream car
I recently discovered that electric car maker Tesla set up shop on Sydney Martin Place. Beautiful vehicles indeed. It seems like the future is arriving, slowly but surely. I’m not so sure that all transportation will be electric by the year 2030, but we’re moving in the right direction, albeit painfully slowly. All we need now is for these cars to become affordable and for electricity to be generated by means other than burning coal, as is sadly still the case in most of Australia.
Resources for learning Spanish
This post contains some great resources for learning Spanish.
SpanishDict
SpanishDict is an incredibly versatile dictionary website, with mobile apps also available.
It features a very fast translation engine, many handy sections on grammar, sets of flashcards for building your vocabulary, and – my favourite – a verb conjugation engine.
I’ve been learning Portuguese for a while now. In this post I’ve collected some resources I’ve found particularly useful. Any suggestions? I would love to hear them and include them in this post!Animation – Mandarine dance
Here is my 7th animation, Mandarine dance, completely improvised.
Animation – Fruity surprise
This is my 6th animation, Fruity surprise.
Not quite
Nicht ganz (Not quite), 2016
Animation 5
Here is a short claymation animation.